Lets Get Personal

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I already picked up some talk radios for $9.99 and they got some other great deals and for really dirt cheap prices.
I just called a friend of mine in the US. I haven’t seen him in ages, sildenafil and well I dont recall the last time I even heard his voice, psychiatrist yet I still keep tabs on him via messaging, SMSes and other online stuff. Yet I never thought of calling him, so I called him tonight.

And it felt good.

Which got to me thinking that all this crazy internet stuff that we have been using in terms of social interaction via blogs, flickr, social networks and such were great when we had a limited community that we interacted with and it was a great way to keep the extended one some what connected.

Then slowly the community that we interact with regularly joins this extended one in terms of communication and interaction. Dont get me wrong it is great being able to know that your friends are still alive and well and doing stuff, but isn’t it better to contact them and actually have a one on one conversation on what they are doing.

What we put up online isn’t what really goes on in our lives. We sugar coat it and put some rose color glasses on it, and still it just 10% of what really goes on in our lives.

So I believe that all this extended communication is going to go soon. Well not really just go away, but be less of an active presence in our lives. We are actually going to contact people and go back to having individual conversations. It is time we got personal with the people we care about and not just keeping them at an arms length.

Mahmood.tv Blocked in Bahrain

I felt it was going to rain today around 5 and at .825 this evening it gave a salight drizzle.

Summer is finally over Fall has started!
I felt it was going to rain today around 5 and at .825 this evening it gave a salight drizzle.

Summer is finally over Fall has started!
I felt it was going to rain today around 5 and at .825 this evening it gave a salight drizzle.

Summer is finally over Fall has started!
Mahmood.tv has been blocked!. If you dont know Mahmood he is a prominent Bahraini blogger a good friend and for some reason the Bahrain Ministry of Information has blocked his website in Bahrain.

This has always been something we worry and joke about in our area, order but with this one I sense it will not simply pushed under the rug. They really dont know who they are messing with. This only makes his messages louder and strong and to more people.

Now everyone in Bahrain and outside will know about his blog his ideas and the injustices that occurring in Bahrain.

So spread his website to everyone you know make this known!

Boycott Egypt

Morning Coffe

I got maybe 3 hours of sleep.

Morning Coffe

I got maybe 3 hours of sleep.

Old draft wrote it in May 18 2005 at 12:02 figured should publish itThe New York Times is going to paid subscribtion service for their op-ed and news columnists. So all you Friedman fans will have to pay to read his articles now.
It is a strange week, illness just after CNN removed their subscrition service, info and LA times did the same just earlier this year, website like this NY Times has to go backwards.
I dont know who is going to pay for this service, cause I know I won’t. Salon tried the subscrition service route for their premium content and just kept losing money and they didn’t get a profit til they they removed that divide. Now they still have subscriber service but that just removes ads and gives a couple extra perks.
The problem with the internet and subscrition service is that people dont like to pay for something they can’t hold or own in their hand especially when they are just going to read it for 5 minutes when they are sitting on a computer. When people buy magazines and news papers its not just for the content but the portablity of it. I can access the internet on my phone and read websites, but I still buy magazines cause I can take it with me anywhere and easily share it with my friends.
What the NY Times needs to do is what I told Salon create a printable version of their content in a magazine form. And now with syndicated feeds becoming more popular you can create your own news paper. Imagine picking and choose what you read in a paper and have it printed in the morning like a podcast and take it with you.

Morning Coffe

I got maybe 3 hours of sleep.

Old draft wrote it in May 18 2005 at 12:02 figured should publish itThe New York Times is going to paid subscribtion service for their op-ed and news columnists. So all you Friedman fans will have to pay to read his articles now.
It is a strange week, illness just after CNN removed their subscrition service, info and LA times did the same just earlier this year, website like this NY Times has to go backwards.
I dont know who is going to pay for this service, cause I know I won’t. Salon tried the subscrition service route for their premium content and just kept losing money and they didn’t get a profit til they they removed that divide. Now they still have subscriber service but that just removes ads and gives a couple extra perks.
The problem with the internet and subscrition service is that people dont like to pay for something they can’t hold or own in their hand especially when they are just going to read it for 5 minutes when they are sitting on a computer. When people buy magazines and news papers its not just for the content but the portablity of it. I can access the internet on my phone and read websites, but I still buy magazines cause I can take it with me anywhere and easily share it with my friends.
What the NY Times needs to do is what I told Salon create a printable version of their content in a magazine form. And now with syndicated feeds becoming more popular you can create your own news paper. Imagine picking and choose what you read in a paper and have it printed in the morning like a podcast and take it with you.
Old draft wrote it in May 18 2005 at 12:02 figured should publish itThe New York Times is going to paid subscribtion service for their op-ed and news columnists. So all you Friedman fans will have to pay to read his articles now.
It is a strange week, illness just after CNN removed their subscrition service, info and LA times did the same just earlier this year, website like this NY Times has to go backwards.
I dont know who is going to pay for this service, cause I know I won’t. Salon tried the subscrition service route for their premium content and just kept losing money and they didn’t get a profit til they they removed that divide. Now they still have subscriber service but that just removes ads and gives a couple extra perks.
The problem with the internet and subscrition service is that people dont like to pay for something they can’t hold or own in their hand especially when they are just going to read it for 5 minutes when they are sitting on a computer. When people buy magazines and news papers its not just for the content but the portablity of it. I can access the internet on my phone and read websites, but I still buy magazines cause I can take it with me anywhere and easily share it with my friends.
What the NY Times needs to do is what I told Salon create a printable version of their content in a magazine form. And now with syndicated feeds becoming more popular you can create your own news paper. Imagine picking and choose what you read in a paper and have it printed in the morning like a podcast and take it with you.
Just want to share two things that are going on in the Arabosphere:

  • Boycott Batelco

    Batelco has revised the Broadband Internet (ADSL) packages so that there aren’t any more unlimited usage packages. This means you will be charged extra the more you use your Internet connection, pharmacy
    with no option to pay a flat fee.

  • Free Alaa

    On Saturday (May 7), Alaa was arrested with a group of activists during a peaceful demonstration outside a Cairo courthouse. The rally denounced disciplinary hearings for two reform judges and arrests of protestors at previous demonstrations. Alaa and a group of other demonstrators were cornered by Egyptian police, and security agents then apparently handpicked individual protestors for arrest.

  • It is interesting to see how other countries to compare them to your own.